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Improving Student Understanding of Coulomb's Law and Gauss's Law

written by
Zeynep Isvan and
Chandralekha Singh

We discuss the development and evaluation of five research-based tutorials on Coulomb's law, superposition, symmetry and Gauss's Law to help students in the calculus-based introductory physics courses learn these concepts. We compare the performance of students on the pre-/post-tests given before and after the tutorials in three calculus-based introductory physics courses. We also compare the performance of students who used the tutorials and those who did not use it on a multiple-choice test which employs concepts covered in the tutorials.

Physics Education Research Conference 2006
Part of the PER Conference series
Syracuse, New York:
July 26-27, 2006
Volume 883, Pages 181-184

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